Faith and Modern ThoughtG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1876 - 272 стор. |
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Сторінка xv
... fact , as the knowledge of a single leaf falls short of enabling us to decide , by sense alone , in respect to the extent , or design , of an Amazonian forest . There is a real sense in which it may be said that faith is essential to a ...
... fact , as the knowledge of a single leaf falls short of enabling us to decide , by sense alone , in respect to the extent , or design , of an Amazonian forest . There is a real sense in which it may be said that faith is essential to a ...
Сторінка xvi
... fact , having any reality . Shutting out everything else but the antecedence and conse- quence of facts , without any other causal binding , they make nature and the world a phantasmagoria , a fleeting series of unconnected phenomena ...
... fact , having any reality . Shutting out everything else but the antecedence and conse- quence of facts , without any other causal binding , they make nature and the world a phantasmagoria , a fleeting series of unconnected phenomena ...
Сторінка xxii
... may be called the key position of the anti - religious scientist . To turn it , as we think both of these writers have done , is , in fact , to enter the citadel . But what right , it may be asked , has xxii INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
... may be called the key position of the anti - religious scientist . To turn it , as we think both of these writers have done , is , in fact , to enter the citadel . But what right , it may be asked , has xxii INTRODUCTORY NOTICE .
Сторінка xxiv
... fact , that , in the very earliest Scripture , ( Gen. viii , 22 ) there is the most solemn declaration of the constancy of nature , and a most . solemn guaranty given of it for our belief , stronger than any ever furnished by any ...
... fact , that , in the very earliest Scripture , ( Gen. viii , 22 ) there is the most solemn declaration of the constancy of nature , and a most . solemn guaranty given of it for our belief , stronger than any ever furnished by any ...
Сторінка xxix
... fact , and the scientific men who make this plea should be plainly told it , and made to confess it , that there is a region acces- sible to the common cultivated mind , and especially to such a thinker as the author of this book ...
... fact , and the scientific men who make this plea should be plainly told it , and made to confess it , that there is a region acces- sible to the common cultivated mind , and especially to such a thinker as the author of this book ...
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Сторінка 39 - And the times of this ignorance God winked at ; but now commandeth all men everywhere to repent: because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness, by that man whom he hath ordained : whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
Сторінка 154 - Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way ? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.
Сторінка 164 - BEHOLD, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me : and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple; even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in; behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
Сторінка 176 - Go and show John again those things which ye do hear and see : The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the Gospel preached to them.
Сторінка 190 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Сторінка 177 - And this voice which came from heaven we heard, when we were with him in the holy mount.
Сторінка 248 - The problem of the connection of body and soul is as insoluble in its modern form as it was in the prescientific ages.
Сторінка 17 - Those modes of the Unknowable which we call motion, heat, light, chemical affinity, &c., are alike transformable into each other, and into those modes of the Unknowable which we distinguish as sensation, emotion, thought : these, in their turns, being directly or indirectly re-transformable into the original shapes.
Сторінка 176 - If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works : that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him.
Сторінка 67 - If Religion and Science are to be reconciled, the basis of reconciliation must be this deepest, widest, and most certain of all facts — that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable.